Lori Emerson Associate Professor | Founding Director, Media Archaeology Lab English Literature | Intermedia Arts, Writing, Performance PhD Program Department of English University of Colorado at Boulder Hellems 101, 226 UCB Boulder, CO 80309 [email protected] loriemerson.net | mediaarchaeologylab.com Employment 2009–Present Founding Director | Media Archaeology Lab University of Colorado at Boulder, CO 2015–Present Associate Professor |Dept. of English, College of Arts & Sciences University of Colorado at Boulder, CO 2015–Present Associate Professor | Program for Intermedia Arts, Writing, and Performance | College of Media Communication, & Information University of Colorado at Boulder, CO 2008–2015 Assistant Professor | Dept. of English | College of Arts & Sciences University of Colorado at Boulder, CO 2007–2008 Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow | School of Literature, Communication, and Culture Te Georgia Institute of Technology at Atlanta, GA 2007 Instructor | Dept. of Literature and Language Clayton State University at Morrow, GA 2002–2006 Teaching Assistant | Dept. of English | College of Arts & Sciences SUNY at Buffalo, NY 2002–2006 Graduate Assistant | Dept. of English | College of Arts & Sciences SUNY at Buffalo, NY 1999–2000 Graduate Assistant | Dept. of English | Faculty of Arts University of Victoria at Victoria, BC Emerson | 1 of 27 Education June 2008 Ph.D., Poetics (English) SUNY at Buffalo, NY June 2004 M.A. (English) SUNY at Buffalo, NY Dec. 2001 M.A. First Class (English) University of Victoria, BC Dec. 1998 B.A. Distinction (English) University of Alberta, Edmonton 1994–1995 (English) University of Wales, Swansea Research & Teaching Interests Digital Humanities, Media Studies, Media Archaeology, Media History, Computer History, Telecommunications Networks, Digital Textuality, Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Experimental Writing, Digital Archives, Digital Preservation Current Projects Te Lab Book: Situated Practices in Media Studies (forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press) Te Lab Book—cowritten by Lori Emerson, Darren Wershler and Jussi Parikka—investigates the history of media and humanities labs as situated practices, presenting a much-needed critical, historical and international examination of a major ongoing shift in contemporary ideas about higher education, the information technology sector and the public good. Te project also includes an iterative website (whatisamedialab.com) that will deliver a synchronic overview of contemporary media labs through a series of interviews with their occupants. Other Networks Tis two-part book project moves through both technical and user-based accounts of networks preceding and outside of the Internet, asking both “how does it work?” and “for whom does it work?” Te project then looks at how the shift from liberationism via telecommunications networks in the 70s and 80s to libertarianism via the Internet starting in the early to mid-90s may have actually been a kind of release of a repression. Emerson | 2 of 27 Media Archaeology Lab Tis lab—which is the largest of its kind in North America—is a place for cross-disciplinary experimental research and teaching using the tools, the software and platforms, from the past. Te MAL is propelled equally by the need to maintain access to early works of digital art, games, and literature and by the need to archive and maintain the computers these works were created on. MAL is also a member of the Library of Congress' National Digital Stewardship Alliance. Media Coverage: Atlas Obscura, September 2017; Nature, May 2017; Coloradan: CU Alumni Magazine, December 2016; Creators Project, July 2014; Retro Magazine, July 2014; Te Atlantic online, January 2013; 1Business.com, January 2013; Brad Feld personal blog, November 2013; Infotecarios blog, November 2013; Radio 1190, October 2013; BYU Radio, October 2013; Te Rumpus, September 2013; Nick Montfort personal blog, Post Position, July 2013; Jacket Magazine 2, February 2013; Colorado Arts & Sciences Magazine, December 2012; Library of Congress blog, Te Signal: Digital Preservation, October 2012; Jussi Parikka personal blog, Machinology, October 2012; Poetry Foundation blog, Harriet, March 2011 Exhibits: MediaLive Festival, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (May 2017); City Park Jazz Festival, Denver, CO (May 2016); CU Art Museum, Boulder, CO (August- October 2016); MediaLive Festival, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (May 2016); Norlin Library, University of Colorado Boulder (September 2011) Publications Monograph Books Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2014 Reviews: Digital Humanities Quarterly, February 2017; International Journal of Communication, October 2016; Information & Culture, 2016; Reviews in Cultural Teory, June 2016; Czeska Literatura 63, 2015-2016; Computational Culture, January 2016; American Literature, September 2015; Rhizomes, July 2015; Jacket2 Magazine, June 2015; hyperrhiz, February 2015; Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, February 2015; Te Emily Dickinson Journal, January 2015; Image & Narrative, Summer 2014; Huffington Post, August 2014; Te Literary Platform, August 2014; Furtherfeld, July 2014; New Books in Technology, June 2014 Edited Books with Marie-Laure Ryan and Benjamin J. Robertson. Te Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014 Emerson | 3 of 27 Reviews: Reference Reviews, December 2015; Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy, March 2015; Journal of Digital Humanities, Summer 2014; Collection Management, September 2014; Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, October 2014; Publishing Research Quarterly, September 2014; American References Book Annual, July 2014; Library Journal, June 2014; Huffington Post, May 2014 with Derek Beaulieu. Writing Surfaces: Te Selected Fiction of John Riddell. Waterloo, ON: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2013 Reviews: Jacket2, January 2015; Lemon Hound, March 2014; Winnipeg Free Press, May 2013 with Darren Wershler-Henry. Te Alphabet Game: A bpNichol Reader. Toronto, ON: Coach House Books, 2007 Reviews: American Book Review, June 2009; Te Journal of Commonwealth Literature Vol. 43, No. 4, 31-61 (2008); Grand Text Auto Sept. 2008; Agora Review July 2008; Women’s Post: Te National Resource for Professional Women May 2008; Canadian Literature Spring 2008; Ascent Magazine Spring 2008; Matrix Magazine February 2008; Bookforum January 2008; Eye Weekly November 2007; rob mclennan’s blog November 2007; Te Torontoist December 2007; Te Edmonton Journal December 2007 Edited Journal Issues & Online Archives Editor-in-Chief. “bpnichol.ca.” Online author archive. Sept. 2007 – Feb. 2013 Guest Editor. Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Teory, Special Issue: bpNichol+21. 13:8 (Spring 2009) Guest Editor. Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Teory, Special Issue: bpNichol+20. 13:5 (Spring 2008) Editor, Producer. “bp Nichol.” Pennsound online audio archive ( January 2006). University of Pennsylvania Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing Guest Editor with Barbara Cole. Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Teory, Special Issue: Kenneth Goldsmith and Conceptual Poetics. Series 12, No. 7 (Fall 2005) Book Chapters “Te Media Archaeology Lab as Platform for Undoing and Reimagining Media History.” Hands on Media History: A New Methodology in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Eds. John Ellis and Nick Hall (forthcoming Routledge University Press, 2019) Emerson | 4 of 27 Book Chapters continued “Interfaced.” Further Reading. Eds. Matthew Ruberry and Leah Price (forthcoming Oxford University Press, 2019) “Excavating, Archiving, Making Media Inscriptions // In and Beyond the Media Archaeology Lab.” Inscription. Gothenburg, Sweden: Regional State Archives (2018): 247-272 Peer Reviewed Articles with libi striegl. “Anarchive as Technique | Te Media Archaeology Lab's OLPC Mesh Network Project.” Digital Archives (forthcoming Fall 2018) “Media Archeology Lab: Experimentation, Tinkering, Probing. Lori Emerson in conversation with Piotr Marecki.” Przegląd Kulturoznawczy (Fall 2017): 43-47 “As If, or, Using Media Archaeology to Reimagine Past, Present, and Future: An Interview with Lori Emerson.” International Journal of Communication 10 ( June 2016) “Te Media Archaeology Lab as Anarchive.” Intervención: Revista Internacional de Conservación, Restauración y Museología (September 2016) “What’s Wrong With the Internet and How We Can Fix It: An Interview with Internet Pioneer John Day.” Ctrl-Z: New Media Philosophy 5 (December 2015) with Dene Grigar and Kathi Inman Berens. “Curating the MLA 2012 'Electronic Literature' Exhibit.” Rhizomes 24 (August 2012) “Materiality, Intentionality, and the Computer-Generated Poem: A Reading of Walter Benn Michaels With Erin Mouré’s Pillage Laud.” English Studies in Canada 34:4 (December 2008, published Spring 2010): 45-69 “A Hyperspace Poetics, or, Words in Space: Digital Poetry Trough Ezra Pound’s Vorticism.” Confgurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology. Special Issue: Mathematics and the Imagination. 17:1-2 (Spring 2009, published Spring 2010): 161-192 “My Digital Dickinson.” Te Emily Dickinson Journal. Special Issue: Contemporary Poetics. 17:2 (Fall 2008): 55-76 “Numbered Space and Topographic Writing.” Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Special Issue: New Media Poetry and Poetics. MIT Press. 14:5 (September 2006) “Digital Poetry as Refexive Embodiment.” Cybertext Yearbook (2002-2003): 88 – 106 with Joseph